At a press briefing December 6, NASA Space Shuttle program managers reported steady progress toward a return to flight. Before the end of December, they said, the space agency will submit to an ...

In our third special preview of the upcoming space shuttle flight, New Scientist examines how astronauts will test techniques to repair the orbiter’s heat shield in space Following the Columbia ...

NASA is working feverishly to return the space shuttle to flight in May 2005, but it may fly without the capability to fix cracks or holes of the type that doomed Columbia in 2003, officials said on ...

NASA is still struggling to develop a tool for inspecting the outside of the space shuttle and a repair kit for gashed wings — hurdles that could prolong the grounding of the fleet since the Columbia ...